Wow! Our power went out again at 3pm and just came back on just after midnight.
For those hours, we had half-power sometimes, no power sometimes, but mostly NO POWER AT ALL. Fortunately, we do have power now. I wish there were some way to harness our power and send whatever we could to those souls in Texas who will be powerless for up to a month.
It's an inconvenience only when it happens for a few hours, it's a tragedy when it happens for a lengthy period of time.
Miss Dixie Bell sensed the wrongness of a house without power and would not eat, not come into the house from her little home; but now that the power has returned, she is nestled in her Mum's room (her usual sleeping spot) and calmer than she was on our three walks in the past hour and a half. . .
Me, I sat by candlelight and am now three-quarters of the way through James Rollins' THE JUDAS STRAIN. Highly recommended.